The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends is a book by Humphrey Carpenter, originally published in 1978.

Includes a large number of previously unpublished extracts from letters and other writings by J.R.R. Tolkien. Also includes a reproduction of a note to Dr. Warfield M. Firor from the Inklings, to which Tolkien added his name and a potted four line biography.